Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral
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Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral
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#2Nice chance for some free advertising there. Maybe they should kill their software more often?
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#3In spite of all the hate IE gets, I have to concede that their developers are rather decent people. I'm sure the cake [1] they sent to Mozilla was a gesture of honest goodwill.
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#4I'm surprised the IE team hasn't made more progress considering the easygoing attitude they express with these antics including that cake they sent to Mozilla for FF3. I guess being fun doesn't necessarily mean your software will be too.
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#5Easy for them to laugh - they don't have implement IE6 workarounds.
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#6I'm surprised the IE team hasn't made more progress considering the easygoing attitude they express with these antics including that cake they sent to Mozilla for FF3. I guess being fun doesn't necessarily mean your software will be too.
Wasn't the IE team essentially disbanded for a couple of years?
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#7I'm surprised the IE team hasn't made more progress considering the easygoing attitude they express with these antics including that cake they sent to Mozilla for FF3. I guess being fun doesn't necessarily mean your software will be too.
Wasn't the IE team essentially disbanded for a couple of years?
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#8I still think buying Opera, and adopting/adapting would be a good thing for Microsoft. It would give them a major playing hand in the mobile browser market too.
From Opera's perspective, they might gain a lot of users overnight, which may or may not be a good thing. But i do think Opera as a browser is the neatest, most feature-rich and yet unbloated piece of software i've seen. And they deserve a bigger desktop market share than they currently have.
Re: Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral
#9In spite of all the hate IE gets, I have to concede that their developers are rather decent people. I'm sure the cake [1] they sent to Mozilla was a gesture of honest goodwill. [1] http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=24004
In spite of all the hate IE gets, I have to concede that their developers are rather decent people.
Of course. Some Microsoft people may even frequent HN. ;)
Re: Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral
#10I still think buying Opera, and adopting/adapting would be a good thing for Microsoft. It would give them a major playing hand in the mobile browser market too. From Opera's perspective, they might gain a lot of users overnight, which may or may not be a good thing. But i do think Opera as a browser is the neatest, most feature-rich and yet unbloated piece of software i've seen. And they deserve a bigger desktop mark…
I strongly doubt that will ever happen due to fears of additional antitrust complaints. What I think eventually will happen, however, is that they put their support behind Webkit. Wishful thinking perhaps, but I don't think it's outside of the realm of possibilities.